Follow-up of functional exercise capacity in patients with COVID-19 : It is improved by telerehabilitation

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BACKGROUND: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on functional exercise capacity seemed quickly clinically evident. The objective of this study was to assess the functional exercise capacity of patients with severe COVID-19 and to evaluate the effect of a telerehabilitation program in the specific context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

METHOD: Patients hospitalized for severe or critical COVID-19 were recruited. The functional exercise capacity (1-min sit-to-stand test (STST)) was prospectively quantified at discharge. A telerehabilitation program was then proposed. A control group was composed with the patients refusing the program.

RESULTS: At discharge, none of the 48 recruited patients had a STST higher than the 50th percentile and 77% of them were below the 2.5th percentile. SpO2 was 92.6 ± 3.0% after STST and 15 patients had oxygen desaturation. After 3-months of follow-up, the number of repetitions during STST significantly increased either in telerehabilitation (n = 14) (p < 0.001) or in control groups (n = 13) (p = 0.002) but only one patient had a result higher than the 50th percentile (in Telerehabilitation group) and 37% of them were still under the 2.5th percentile for this result. The improvement was significantly and clinically greater after the telerehabilitation program (p = 0.005). No adverse events were reported by the patients during the program.

CONCLUSIONS: Patients hospitalized for COVID-19 have a low functional exercise capacity at discharge and the recovery after three months is poor. The feasibility and the effect of a simple telerehabilitation program were verified, this program being able to substantially improve the functional recovery after three months.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:183

Enthalten in:

Respiratory medicine - 183(2021) vom: 01. Juli, Seite 106438

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Martin, Ines [VerfasserIn]
Braem, Fred [VerfasserIn]
Baudet, Lia [VerfasserIn]
Poncin, William [VerfasserIn]
Fizaine, Stéphane [VerfasserIn]
Aboubakar, Frank [VerfasserIn]
Froidure, Antoine [VerfasserIn]
Pilette, Charles [VerfasserIn]
Liistro, Giuseppe [VerfasserIn]
De Greef, Julien [VerfasserIn]
Yildiz, Halil [VerfasserIn]
Pothen, Lucie [VerfasserIn]
Yombi, Jean-Cyr [VerfasserIn]
Belkhir, Leïla [VerfasserIn]
Reychler, Gregory [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID
Functional exercise capacity
Journal Article
Observational Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Telerehabilitation

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Date Completed 01.06.2021

Date Revised 21.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.rmed.2021.106438

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM325164908